Popular Liberal Action

Popular Liberal Action (ALP) was a liberal-conservative political party of the French Third Republic which was active from 1901 to 1919. The party was founded by Jacques Piou, a former Liberal Republican Union politician who supported a fusion of conservative republicans and traditionalist Catholics into a French Tory party. The ALP represented Catholic supporters of the Republic, and it opposed the Democratic Republican Alliance's anti-clerical agenda under Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau and Emile Combes. The ALP failed to unite the Catholics, however, as the party was shunned by monarchists, Christian democrats, and traditionalist "Integrists", and it lost the support of Rome in 1908. It remained the most important right-wing party in France until 1914, and it was all but forgotten during World War I due to the "Sacred Union" alliance between the left and the moderate right. In 1919, the ALP merged into the Republican Federation to unite the republican right.